NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES vs AMD Radeon R7 260X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)
AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1280GB)
560 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (115W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES
1.046 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 260X
+88%
1.971 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2011
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 400
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1002 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
Memory
1280MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
128.3GB/s
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
7
SM Count
-
336
Shading Units
896
56
TMUs
56
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.91 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
43.62 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1046 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
87.19 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
115W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF114
GPU Name
Bonaire
GF114-400-A1
GPU Variant
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
332 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.3
